Well it seems like the demand is there. Building a W3C standards compliant
version of the PHP library for the DeviceMap/OpenDDR data files is actually
not that complex. It just takes a bit of time. I had 2 days to build the
initial library (along with the usual other cruft and requests that come on
as a developer during the course of a day) so had to whip something up
quick.
@Reza: Wrapping it with a RESTful interface would be very simple but I'd
rather not do it with my current library as it is very thrown together.
Ultimately all it is designed to do right now is loop through the
BuilderDataSource.xml to match all of the <list> items to any strings in
the user agent, then search the DeviceDataSource.xml for the device id, and
loop through the parents and build a capabilities array for the users
device accessible to the developer with a few lines of code as simple as:
<?php
include_once
(dirname(__FILE__)."/lib/JMOpenDDR/BuilderDataSource.class.php");
include_once (dirname(__FILE__)."/lib/JMOpenDDR/DeviceDetection.class.php");
$user_agent_test = "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36
(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/27.0.1453.12 Safari/537.36";
$new_device_detection = new DeviceDetection($user_agent_test);
if ($new_device_detection->getProperty('is_wireless_device'))
{
echo "This is a wireless device!!";
}
else
{
echo "This is NOT a wireless device!!";
}
There is one very big problem with the OpenDDR data files is that they do
not seem to include details of desktop browsers. So the library is forced
to make the assumption that if the device is not in the list all
capabilities are available because it is probably a desktop browser when
the better practice would be to assume the device has NO capabilities
beyond the generic device if it is not listed in the DDR to ensure better
compatibility with older feature phones.
Lastly, the current library I cannot redistribute. It was unfortunately
built as part of my work at my present employer and as such they retain the
copyright on that work and knowing them they will not allow it to be
released to the open source community at large.
Now I will shut up and let others talk hehe
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 7:39 PM, Werner Keil <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sounds cool,
>
> Beside Java and a still early stage C# port, languages like PHP, Python,
> Ruby and maybe a few others (Scala, those could theoretically benefit from
> Java client via JVM, too) sound like a very good idea.
>
> From at least 2 conferences we both spoke at, I know Stephan Hochdörfer
> from a rather active PHP shop in Mannheim, Germany:
> http://blog.bitexpert.de/author/stephan-hochdoerfer/ sorry his profile is
> mostly German, at least Christian and a few other German speakers should be
> able to read. Those guys may also be interested in a PHP port or be able to
> contribute if they have commercial need and clients for it.
>
> Regards,
> Werner
>
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 9:34 PM, Carlos D'Agostino <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm also woking in a PHP and Java-oriented company. I also do a lot of
> Ruby
> > coding on my own time.
> >
> > I'd be more than willing to contribute with code to porting libraries to
> > these languages.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 7:11 PM, Christian Stocker <
> > [email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > JFYI, I'm a PHP guy and following this list since the beginning and I'm
> > > working in a PHP company, so we'd be very interested in such a library
> > >
> > > chregu
> > >
> > > On 23.04.13 17:13, Reza wrote:
> > > > Hey Greg, do you have the code posted anywhere? Would it be easy to
> > wrap
> > > your code with a JSON service so it can be tested against the other
> APIs?
> > > >
> > > > Not sure if there are any PHP guys on the team, Im not very familiar
> > > with it. Im certain there will be interest in this because PHP is so
> > > popular.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ________________________________
> > > > From: Gareth McCumskey <[email protected]>
> > > > To: [email protected]
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 10:22 AM
> > > > Subject: PHP Client Library
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi guys,
> > > >
> > > > Recently joined the mailing list and was looking a few weeks ago to
> > find
> > > a
> > > > client library for DeviceMap or OpenDDR in order to use for our web
> > > > application. Formerly we were using Tera WURFL.
> > > >
> > > > Seeing as I couldn't really find a complete one that I liked I ended
> up
> > > > developing my own. It was actually pretty quick and dirty just to get
> > the
> > > > job done due to time constraints so its not following the standards
> per
> > > se.
> > > >
> > > > I was wondering if the project would like to have a more complete
> > library
> > > > contributed in order to more easily support PHP applications?
> > > >
> > >
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> >
>
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